Below is a press release from Intermune, the company that makes Pirfenidone. They have essentially reviewed the various clinical trials going on, and decided that Pirfenidone is safe and well tolerated. That would pretty much go along with what we've observed in the HPS community as well. We have a few folks that have been on the drug since the late 90s and continue to do well. Of course, as a journalist, I do have to say consider the source - but at the same time, as someone in a Pirfenidone trial, it's good to know. Results of Comprehensive Safety Analysis of pirfenidone In IPF Patients Presented At European Respiratory Meeting - Analysis shows safety and tolerability of pirfenidone across four clinical trials - VIENNA, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InterMune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITMN ) today announced that the results of a comprehensive review of safety data from four clinical studies were presented at the 2009 European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Vienna, Austria...
Here was another sight we stopped to see on our quick trip to Concord. This is the Old North Bridge. When the fighting broke out between the British and the colonists, there had been a few skirmishes that first day of the Revolutionary War, starting in Lexington. It's at this bridge, however, that the forces sort of faced off with the Brits on one side and the colonists on the other. It was on this spot that the first official orders were given to fire on the British troops. Can you imagine what that must have been like? We didn't yet have an identity as Americans. These farmers known as the Minute Men were essentially being asked to fire on their own - as if we were asked to fire on other Americans. How badly things must have become from their point of view to reach such a place.
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